good thing we got rid of fema in 2025 then
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You know those stories where the world is reduced to a post-apocalypse after a natural event? What if that's only what happens in the US, and the rest of the world recovers with ease due to extant rescue services?
Oooh, so that's why apocalyptic movies are almost always only US oriented
If it wasn’t for the stupid Darrel Dixon show, my head canon of the walking dead only affecting America would still stand.
They literally just walk, and it would be pretty obvious that everyone is infected after the first year or so of people dying from the flu and shit. Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.
After experiencing the covid-19 outbreak I am now fully convinced that a zombie apocalypse is feasible, there would be people denying the existence of the zombie virus, just going to the infected an getting bitten because they wanted a pizza or something, that and people just drenching themselves in bleach or something because they heard that keep the zombies away from some dude online. Stuff like that.
Stuck having to go to work in a zombie apocalypse because you're an "essential worker".
Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.
True but you underestimate people stupidity.
Imagine the zombie rights guests on a Joe Rogan podcast.
Exactly
Yeah we need to stop giving dumb idiots microphones
I’ve always thought that if I’m in a zombie apocalypse im just gonna carry super soakers filled with hydrogen peroxide
Isn't that the case in the 28 X later series? Like England fell to a zombie apocalypse but the rest of the world is doing fine?
Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually...
There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the 'hit'. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).
It is a little more complex than that. You cannot only consider how big is a country or how big is its grid.
If the Europe would be hit by a solar storm, assuming that not all of it was hit we can recover the grid in about a month and the blackout would not be longer than maybe a week.
But a solar storm would destroy also everything else, so how big is the grid is really irrelevant when you basically have every other piece (excluded the few hardened enough) destroyed.
I remember a Tumblr (maybe) post with a similar concept, but about Australia and the Mad Max series.
...and simply agrees to never, ever, set foot in North America.
I'm in.
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America, Mexico, and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours to The Wastelands.
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours...
Fuck Mexico, I guess.
My sincere apologies, Mexico is definitely on the good list.
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Note: "Would Be a Catastrophe" even back when the agencies involved in mitigating the disaster still existed.
Oy. I really don't want to see what happens when we're faced with an actual challenge. This is... yikes.
I would get a case of beer and go to the library and read until the internet was back on. You can't stop my escapism that easily.
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It's all right, Trump will redirect the solar flare by drawing a new line on a chart. Plasma is very accommodating as everybody is well aware.
CMEs are not solar flares.
Can't we just rake the sun?
They said we weren't prepared for a pandemic, either.
Shit we gotta fix this.
im just not gonna worry about the sun
It's gonna get you!
I'm glad this threat is at least starting to be taken seriously. As an amateur radio operator, I got incredibly interested in how the weather on the sun affects radio propagation and power management here on Earth.
Better a CME than an EMP just simply because there is at least some time to prepare for a massive CME. Whereas an EMP has absolutely no warning whatsoever.
In the event of a massive CME off-grid homes and buildings are likely to fare much better because they are not connected to the power grid. The problem comes with long transmission lines where incredibly large charge differentials can build up over distance. shorter wires can't build up nearly the same amount of charge differential.
Edit: I feel it's important to mention that grid tie systems are going to be just as vulnerable as on grid because you still have the grid actually physically connected to the building.
It's worth noting that even though a building might have solar, the systems usually disable themselves in the event of a blackout to prevent back feeding into the grid.
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As an amateur radio operator, The high bands get wiped first! 80, 160, not so much (no ionosphere? ground wave still works. Easy to throw up a long wire ... afterward). Hams (esp. ARES) will become VERY IMPORTANT for a LONG time when it happens. Field Day is a good way to prep for aftermath. (Gear can go into metal containers to escape parts damage until afterward.) Portable generators (best without a lot of electronics on them) will be needed to re-charge the batteries!
lol we couldn't even prepare for fascist takeover of the country. why tf would anyone think we'd be prepared for a solar firestorm
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Man you know it’s bad when you’re rooting for this or a civil war or nukes. Just to reset everything. I’m so over being an American.
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Don't look up
I'm not a doomsday prepper, but stuff like this makes me want to sequester some gear...
I don’t think it will matter. We need modern logistics to produce and get food to people. Without that 90% of people will starve in the first few months.
It’s good to have supplies for regional disasters and events that only last a few weeks or months. But if the national grid is going to be out for a year or more and things like fuel and food can’t be transported and stored at key locations then it’s all going to shit.
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I have an old safe where i keep some old tech and power banks - just junk really but the Faraday is enough for any solar flare and i think it looks cool. Not sure what good that would do if all cell towers and satellites are fried though. Even fiber is unlikely to operate as I imagine most switches are not secured.
Last time I did research on this I came out entirely unconvinced of value of prepping here. Just the usual water, gas stove and bags of rice is really best bet and invest everything else back to local communities because economies of scale kicks ass.
the Faraday is enough for any solar flare
Faraday cages are useful. But CMEs are not solar flares. They are very different (though sometimes loosely correlated) phenomena.
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